Sorry, Battosai.
I think that’s a no on every count. No WF:( Dunno about the Cali arcades but, I’d like to hope:)
I also haven’t heard anything of the MWC tourney aside from results. I’d love to see 'em since I’ve only tried the game out once:(
Apoc.
Dare? Transformers The Movie Dare?!
Outstanding! 
LOL! I’ll never live down that song! Darn JSF!!!
Shiet is tite tho! lol That and “the Touch!” 80’s hotness in full efffffffffffect. heheh
Apoc.
man
I remember the first time I saw street fighter 2, my aunt owns a arcade in La Parguera Puerto Rico and she always have the newest games. I remember her even having those sega holoram games. Anyways I remember seeing alot of the older guys surrounding this arcade machine and my older cousin tells me “dude we got street fighter 2” I was so excited when i heard that, but I was to nervous to play and they were to many quarters lined up but my aunt promised to let me play the next day before the store opened. man I tell you I wasted days on end playing sf2 she got every version it was like heaven. I remember reading a gamepro magazine talking about a big ssf2 tourney in las vegas and there was the first time i saw the name Alex Valle he had won the tourney using Ryu and even put some combos for the magazine which was jump rk cr mk fb to many things to list to many memories 
man i miss the good ol days of sf
man
Damn! The scene was hot in Puerto Rico too! Tite. Sups Bacardi:) Goin’ ta Evo?
Apoc.
yup
u damn right i am, only person from pr going this year I think
yup
Shiet. Wussup with the PR players? Anyway, hit me up meign:) Gotta kick.
Apoc.
all right stupid Q but whe you say Vega an balrog, is that the Spainish dude with the claw and and the boxer or the JPN version of them in other words Mike Bison and Vega
also what ever happened to Schaefer and Tomo ?
Why did he have probs with these 2 chars as I remember he played good with Guile and Ryu, also I never printed that page that you said and I am asking you to please print of those 20 guys names so I can print them of on my printer when it comes in 2 weeks and put them in that book ?
PLEASE APOC
NP. Just give me some time to look for the page and I’ll put up the list. I’m almost sure that there’s a website with it up. Darn, I saved that link on my old pc:( Anyway, I’ll put the names up within the next few days. Just gimme a bit of time:)
Gotta crash…too…tired. heheh
Apoc.
also could you also answer that paragraph
all right stupid Q but when you say Vega an balrog, is that the Spainish dude with the claw and and the boxer or the JPN version of them in other words Mike Bison and Vega
also what ever happened to Schaefer and Tomo ?
Why did he have probs with these 2 chars as I remember he played good with Guile and Ryu
and were you in that list in the book as I don’t know your real name
Tilt ages.
Although i am only 17, i remeber the days when SF2 first came out. And i loved it. Anyone who lives in the cleveland area can remeber that the arcade in the Great Northern mall has been around for ages and changed shape and form and name so many times its not even funny. Way back into the days when it was called Pocket Change, it was the place with the street fighting. There of course was parma and the aladins castle shit, but i always was and will always be a patron of that fucking arcade in North Olmsted at the great northern mall. It even got shut down plenty of times, but always came back. Today its pretty out of date, but still with some good titles.
To relive my old memories; I bought a CE cabinet.
Yeah, it was totally about the 1P game back then. It was all about clearing those countries, and nobody even gave Ken a second thought.
I remember seeing one guy get totally pissed off when he had several credits in the machine and he accidently hit the 2P start button… He was like “WTF? I just started a 2P game when I was about to beat Geki! I don’t wanna play anymore…” and he just left the machine to the two of us that were watching.
Hmm I’m 25 now, so I was pretty young when SF came out. I can’t relay my experiences nearly as well as some others before me, but I can try. Alot of this stuff is disjointed and out of sequence, since I was pretty young when I started playing SF. All the memories just kinda got mashed together.
Just some random SF playing schmoe from NY so I don’t have anything interesting, but just alot of memories of trying to get good at the game.
I saw SF1 for the first time while on vacation as a kid in florida. We stopped at a rest stop while driving and it was like wow looks cool. Me and my brother used to alot of Karate Champ at this Chicken Place down the street. I promptly owned him a few matches by button mashing on the roundhouse button. o.O
Quite some time later I ran into Street Fighter 2 in NY at the Smith Haven mall on Long Island. I think I pretty much fell in love with the game right there. I used to get 5 bucks a week, which I’d promptly spend in 1 long marathon session at the arcade on saturdays.
I was pretty young at the time, and arcades were considered dirty and full of asian “gangsters” as my parents put it, so I was never allowed to go into the arcade in Chinatown on Mott. I do remember dominating alot of the local arcade competition using Ryu. My “invincible” strategy was to use fireballs to get them to jump at me, and then promptly jump straight up and stick a roundhouse in their face. It’s funny when I think back on it.
The first time championship edition came out, I went out to the Chuck E Cheese around the block and saw people doing the dreaded Psycho Crusher back and forth. I was too intimidated to play against such elite strategies tho,and promptly stood there watching the super powered boss characters owning it up with psycho crusher -> throw.
I evolved my strategy from reading EGM and other such mags, it turned into jump in and meet them in the air with jab, and then cr. short em to death till they were dizzy. I remember accidently doing cr. fierce -> fireball 2 hit combos and getting oohs from the crowds ahaha(I guess there was no real competition in Long Island at the time).
I mostly started really getting into SF2 CE or it may have been HF at this Flea Market called Englishtown in New Jersey. My parents used to work there, and they had an arcade in the indoor spots. All the kids that had parents that worked at the arcade congregated around there. I remember being one of the “better” young’uns, and trying to learn tips from the older teens.
My first sight of Guile was from this kid (we called him the rich white kid), who kept bragging about how he placed #3 in a New Jersey tournament. It was the first time I ever saw any real combos besides the generic cr. forward -> fireball that alot of the “asian” kids around the block could do. I do remember him getting promptly owned by someone named John and his Ken. Just to be able to bust out those DP’s back then were an amazing feat to someone my age.
Me and the other kids at Englishtown used to spend the entire day playing Street Fighter. The arcade had 2 machines back to back. The older good kids played on one, while the scrubby younger kids practiced on the other machine against the computer. Usually only playing against each other to be saved against a loss against the computer.
There was this one kid named Tom. I remember him pretty well, he was the only guy there that played Bison. I think his parents knew mine so he used to give me 2nd round with his Bison while owning up the other kids. There were these 2 black kids that used to come up all the time and talk crazy trash. I think they played Ken, but I remember Tom playing them for 20 bucks. But he had to leave after beating them 1st round so he let me finish the game. Sad to say I got my ass handed to me promptly.
Hehe, there used to be alot of Street Fighter action at Roosevelt Field Mall in Nassau county in NY. I was really sad when they shut that place down. I remember playing the most amazing Dhalsim player. I think I spent like 6 bucks playing him over and over. He felt bad for me and kept giving me rounds and tips, but I was too young to realyl absorb of any of it in.
Ah, well, I was kinda too young to pick up any real SF skills, but the talk of that SF book from gamefan and all the shady arcades bring back soooo many childhood memories. My first time at CTF, with the SF machines in the back right corner. There were MK machines nearby and I remember watching some E. Honda player whomping ass.
I still have that Gamefan book, with that interview. The first 3 chars they teach you to play are Ryu, Guile and Chun Li. And then they had those funny rankings for combos like Master, Cheesy, Cheap, and Wacky. I used to look at that Guile Re-dizzy double sonic boom combo with complete awe. Then they had the story of someone named Goddard owning it up in some Street Fighter Challenge where he promptly owned like 100+ kids. Finally, they had the interview with Tomo Ohira and the picture of the Rankings chart. it wasn’t until I hit AGSF2 that I recognized those names on that ranking chart. The whole thing with talks that Tomo had a manager was crazy to me. There was a story about how Tomo once lost to a local player named “Mike” because of cheap tactics but then the next tourney, Tomo said he used cheap tactics right back and defeated him.
Blah I feel old.
Yeah that book killed it, Guile was number 1 I think, Ryu was 2 and Sagat was 3 and Ken was like 5. I think thats the order as I have 2 find my book to see the real score
Yeah that
I’m STILL trying to find that page, lol.
I swear that I have it!
Apoc.
Man, I remember how magazines used to cover SF2 every month. It’s like they’ve forgoten it now though
The first time I played, Circus Circus Burnsville MN, I was at my freind Ryan’s birthday party… I must have been 6 or 7… Barely old enough to see the screen, yet I remember the crowds around the machine. I remember playing as Blanka because the j,j,j was easy to do, and pretty much the only thing I could do.
Simply put I loved this game immedietly even at 7 years old, I LOVED competition.
There was pretty much a crowd around the machine all night, all my other freinds were off playing games for tickets and stuffed animals. After awhile the smoke started to clear one of the kids from earlier in the night approached me as I was playing Ryu, I had pretty much just been mashing buttons in a fight against Dhalsim… This is the part I will never forget, probably one of the most defining (dorky… but true) moments in my life, the kid that approched me had to probably be at least 17. (He had stayed on the machine for a majority of the night earlier in the evening)
He tossed in his tokens, he gave me one round right off the bat, he knew that I wasn’t doing much other than just mashing my buttons, trying despretely to keep good distance from my opponent, second round he took the stick and showed me how to throw a fireball. He was playing Sim if I remember correctly, he kept letting me attempt to throw them as we would alternate off and on throwing Hadokens at his down on energy Sim, trying to get me to perfect my first move. We practiced this until he took over the controls and finished off what little life he had left. He told me to keep practicing and took off.
Ill never forget that, part of it was the fact that I had this guy that was way older than me show me some attention and helped me out. The other part that makes me remember this, is the fact that I realized just how much depth to this game there was, I asked myself “How much more is there to know?”
After that, I tracked the SNES game through all stages of development until it’s intial release picking it up like the day after my birthday 2 days before the release (early shipment at Kaybee BV, MN 79.99) Only playing scantily here and there when my parents would take me to an arcade, until it dropped. Studying EGMS profiles of the characters, I even knew their blood-types.
I got to play it at Powerfest in the mall close to me, I got to stay on the machine pretty much the entire time just laying it down on anyone that touched the machine, just from the stuff I had learned from magazines and whatnot. I remember some of the stages were incomplete from the release version. Vivid.
sigh
After that it was animosity people lined up all over to play the console version Target, Blockbuster… anwhere that had it, me and my freinds would get together and play for hours on end.
We all did the updated versions thing, and then it pretty much died out… MK was considered superior, the boat wasn’t big enough for a long while. Alpha came out, I DID like it… but it wasn’t quite the same.
I started picking up games of tekken, and toshinden with the release of the ps… but remained pretty much in the mainstream console shit for a while.
I grew up, got a job in the mall that held powerfest, Started REALLY picking up games of Tekken Tag, that’s what brough me back, that and a machine of SF3- New generation. Nobody played much SF, but tekken was always full of people.
It was good. It led to my eventual return to the Street Fighter series, Picked up 3S on the DC and never looked back.
I always looked up the legends at our arcades, I was to young to really be one at that point, but even though I was young, I still remember those early days of the lightly lit arcades packed with legends surrounding the machine feeding off each others will to be recognized.
I was young then, but I am glad I got to taste the Golden Era.
It’s great hearing peoples stories
Excellent thread.
Awesome GF was my mag in the olden days. Funny SFers are like ronin. We devote our time to the perfection of our pursuit, we are spread out all over the world, yet we all have one common bond. It is a strong bond but it is also one that is competitive. Everyday feeding off of the competiton in an endless pursuit of perfection. Small in minority, some of us outcasts some not, coming from all different walks of life & always adapting. We are indeed a strange breed with a very rich history.
Man, I still barely remember the day Mohsen and i met Tim, and Watson and the others…(and i still don’t remember if it was at Time Out or at Western Arcade…).
Of course the SF2…hmm…let’s see…
Time Out arcade (Cerritos Mall) thinking that SF2 was some joke or something, and Jim deciding it was better to buy 2 “Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker” game machines, instead !! JESUS CHRIST !
Mohsen and I had to go to Long Beach arcade to find a SF2 machine…
Eventually Time Out realized they screwed up and got a SF2 for 50 cents/pop.
Sf2 was everywhere.
Donut shops all over, 7-11’s, small liquor stores…
And Charles, and World’s Finest Comics in Pico Rivera…I’ll never forget that. (even though I had more interest catching up on missed issues of THOR magazine than the comp…LOL !).
And that one time Mohsen beat Tomo’s Guile, with Ken, by doing a whiff jump (no attack), which caused Tomo’s standing RH to pass right through Ken and then Tomo got thrown to death…lol!).
Day 1 of champion Edition…
I forgot what place had it first…either Western Arcade, or a doughnut shop off Pioneer Blvd (I THINK it was off Pioneer…it may have been off Norwalk…)but there was a HUGE line of people waiting to play. I mean, a line almost extending outside the arcade, and was extending outside the Doughnut shop…
And Mohsen managing to get in, and saying “Guile’s still good”. (remember all the talk about Guile no longer being able to do Sonic Boom+Fierce anymore…)
And the fun parts, like me teaching Chris Lee, at the 7-11 by his house in Cerritos (who I’ll probably never, ever see again) how to uppercut…dear god…
Sigh…I miss those days…
Chris, or Paul…are you reading this? you remember Ike Miller, don’t you??? @_@ (dreams for a response…)